Chapter 51: Lao Xu
"Say whatever you want?" Cha Wenbin pointed to Li Chenggong next to him and said: "This is from the county criminal investigation brigade, we also went into the mountain to understand the situation, if you have difficulties, you can ask him to help you reflect to your unit." ”
"Can it be done?" Wang Liang said timidly: "If it can be done, I really don't want to stay here, the person next to me is called Chen Zhen, his grandmother knows some methods, let him talk about it specifically." ”
The boy named Chen Zhen was the most immature of the three of them, wearing a pair of thick glasses, and he was quite small, and he said in a Hubei accent: "My grandmother said that if you see something unclean, you should treat it as if you haven't seen it, and if you don't mention it, you won't come to us, so ......."
"So you'd rather watch us die?" The fat man said: "You kid is too boring, this is going to be left on the battlefield in the past, you are betraying your allies to step on mines, your political consciousness must be improved." ”
Chen Zhen's face turned red when the fat man said: "Because you are all good people, you ......"
"Okay, don't worry," Cha Wenbin said, "I can promise you that you will be fine, tell us everything you know." ”
Wang Liang and Chen Zhen also had a job named Yang Feng who had been in Longshan for two months, and after the Spring Festival, they were assigned to do surveying tasks here, and this kind of work was led by a master at the beginning. The master's surname is Fan, and he is about to retire, and he has been working in the field all year round, and this is his last mission. Because they were going to build a tunnel to transport timber, the site selection became their most important task, and the ropeway was to be roughly divided into two sections, with a transit station in the middle, not far from where they lived.
Once in the mountains, the bungalow became their temporary home, and I heard that there was no one living here after the death of an old man who guarded the forest farm ten years ago. The old man's grave is buried in the back of this forest farm, separated by a small slope of less than a few hundred meters, the tomb is facing this house, the first day of Longshan's Lao Xie introduced to them, the first night they three young people crowded into one room, Master Xu is a single room, there are still a lot of things left by the old man in the forest farm in the house, the room where Master Xu slept is the residence in front of the old man.
That night, the three young men couldn't sleep at all, and they always felt that there were people walking back and forth in the house, because there was no electricity and only candles. There is still snow in the mountains in the first month, and the cold and inexplicable fear make them have to snuggle together, Chen Zhen grew up with his grandmother, his grandmother is a person similar to a goddess, and occasionally helps some frightened children collect their souls, or helps people point out the bad things at home, and it is said that they will divination.
The sound of footsteps walking back and forth felt too weird, and Chen Zhen told them that the house was probably not clean, and all they could do was ignore it, and planned to get something to deliver the next day. In this way, the three young men wore panda eyes and spent the first night in fear, and when they hurried to find Master Xu at dawn, they found that Lao Xu's room was empty, and finally they found Lao Xu in front of the tomb, and he didn't know it when he woke him up.
Because this project is very important, but Lao Xu left that afternoon, and the explanation given by their unit was that Lao Xu had the habit of sleepwalking when he was old, and he wanted them to stick to it, and he would immediately send a new master over. And Chen Zhen said that Lao Xu was led by the old tenants here. So the little stick took their rations and made sacrifices, replaced them with cigarettes, set up a table with lighted candles, and the three of them knelt on the ground and explained their intentions to the empty house, asking only for a place to live, and promising not to go to the old man's room.
Strange as it may seem, they slept soundly that night, except that each of them had the same dream, of an old man sitting on the beams of the house and smiling at them, holding the sacrifices they had placed. The next day, Chen Zhen said that this dream indicates that the original owner has promised them, the three of them agreed that no one is allowed to go to that room, they patiently waited for the new master, and on the third day, the mountain finally came, but the person who came only informed them: the new master will not come, there are not enough people above, Lao Xu was transferred to another place, this simple surveying and mapping task is to give them an internship, if they do a good job, they will be stayed, if they do not do well, they will return to the school and wait for redistribution.
For the three college students who have just entered the society, they have no choice in this result, Anxian County is located in the developed provinces of the eastern coast, compared to their classmates who are assigned to the northwest and southwest mountains, they are already very lucky. So the three of them agreed that they must not be returned, but strive to finish the job as soon as possible, but they did not expect that more difficult and terrible days were yet to come.
Longshan is a deep mountain old forest, and the height of the trees in it cannot be seen at a glance, and the sight situation is extremely poor after entering the forest area, so the surveying and mapping work is also very difficult. For the sake of their future, the three of them risked their lives and began to climb the treetops, just to get a better view. At first, they still followed the normal schedule, but as the work progressed, they slowly went further and farther, and once it was dark on the way back by accident......
Most people who do field mapping will encounter something unusual, just like people who work in funeral home morgues. As the old saying goes, if you walk more at night, you are easy to meet ghosts, they have heard this kind of thing from their predecessors in school, and the general teacher will also teach some in private, such as being put on the shoulder and not looking back, not going directly into the house before returning to the camp, but patting the left and right shoulders three times, and shouting names when encountering unfamiliar voices and so on.
They have just experienced supernatural events, they are very careful, there are green dots popping up in the forest from time to time, and they know that it is phosphorus fire after studying in college, because the corpses of animals and plants are buried in the ground, and the decomposition of phosphorus has a very low ignition point and there will be this kind of thing in the soil layer. But when they saw a whole row of ancient maids coming from a distance, their legs and stomachs were still paralyzed with fright, and those maids carried in their hands an oil lamp in the shape of a tray, which was not yellow, but green, and they could see them "floating" there.
In a hurry, Chen Zhen asked the other two classmates to close their eyes and hold their breath, try to make way and squat on the ground with their heads in their hands, the three young people could hear the "faint" wind passing by them, none of them dared to raise their heads, and they didn't know how long it took before they got up tremblingly to observe. At this time, the three of them didn't even dare to walk, so they could only help each other to rush to the camp, but the matter was not over, this was only the first time.
With this experience, the three of them decided to call it a day early, so every time before sunset, they would calculate the distance back in advance, about half a month later, and they remembered that it was only half an hour of road, but they didn't go out until dark, and they got lost in this forest!
As field workers, wayfinding is a compulsory course for them, Chen Zhen said that they encountered a ghost hitting the wall, and they can't panic when they encounter this kind of thing, and they can't panic or mess up, and it's thanks to this classmate that they escaped again.
The three young people were trapped in the forest and could only wait until it was dark to see the starlight before leaving, but the weather was not beautiful and it rained lightly, and the weather in early March was still very cold at night, and they were afraid that they would catch a cold and get sick if they carried it, so they decided to find a place to shelter from the rain. There were a lot of stones in this forest, and the three of them walked a long way when they suddenly noticed something unusual in the forest in front of them.
It was a group of stone carvings, but now most of them have been unrecognizable, occasionally there are a few complete, about three meters high, all kinds of shapes and types, recognizable figures and horses, they are neatly arranged in the same direction, and that direction gives people a special feeling of darkness.
At that time, a kind of fear began to hit his heart, Wang Liang said that when he was a child, he also saw this kind of stone man and stone horse in the fields of the village, and the old people said that they were guards guarding the souls of the dead, and it was said that there was a king of the previous dynasty buried in the fields of their village. So thinking of the palace maids they saw a few days ago, they guessed that it was very likely that this was a cemetery, and in order not to touch their heads, the three young people also knelt on the ground and kowtowed decently, telling themselves that they didn't mean to disturb.
But by that time the rain was getting heavier and heavier, so where should I go? At this moment, someone in the distance shouted Wang Liang's name, and Wang Liang was very curious, why did someone in this forest actually call himself. He immediately thought of what the seniors and teachers had said in the past, saying that there was a kind of ghost in the mountains and forests that hooked people's souls and would call their names if they wanted to find a replacement for the dead ghosts, and if you agreed, the soul would be hooked away. But the voice was getting closer and closer, and when they wanted to run, they turned around and saw a person not far from them who was still holding a flashlight in his hand and gesturing at them, and when they looked at it, that person turned out to be Lao Xu!
Lao Xu said that he had just gone up the mountain this afternoon, and when he found that there was no one in the house, he went up the mountain to look for it, but he didn't expect to finally find it here. Seeing that the master was back again, the three young people cried with joy, they were cold, hungry and frightened at this time, and Lao Xu was their backbone, just like the three young people who had grabbed a life-saving straw walked step by step along the mountain road in the mud under the leadership of Lao Xu......